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Friday, January 27, 2012

Chapter 300: Basketball

After much persuasion, much voice and saliva wasted, I had finally agreed to play Basketball with yian. That made yian the happiest person on the world for that few seconds.

So, we set to meet at 1.30pm at Woodlands MRT. At around 1230, I called, messaged Bing Hui (bh) but to no avail. So I set off on my own, walking down the streets (similar to walking to the bus stop during sec sch days.) Before the traffic lights turn green, I saw 161 at the traffic lights too... and the lights did not turn red.. So I cannot cross while the bus could after awhile... and there goes the bus.

Waited awhile (Iris says its 4 mins, but Iris cannot be trusted, it had scammed me and bh multiple times, to the extent we run for our bus at AJC last time.) Boarded the bus. And the bus actually reached Woodlands Regional Interchange in 20 minutes... Simply Stunning... and that made me reach at 1.20pm... Time to search for the MRT station.. Looked around, wandered around, jumped around, rolled around, and saw a sign that says "lift to MRT". Oh, so the MRT is on top of me. Now to hunt for an escalator.
After some tiring hunting, I found the escalator and went up. And now.. where is the gantry -.- So the hunt continues... Anyways, I am still early.. so I waited and waited. Then, one guy came to me and asked me if I know where "888 clinic was?". The first thought that came to my mind was "Don't ask me, I'm lost too."
So I told him, "I don't know."

Yian came shortly after, quite punctual. So we went to buy some H-TWO-O drinks. There is an offer, 2 going for $1.95. We bought 4. At the cashier, the monitor displayed around 4.90, which is the non-discounted price. The monitor later showed the discounted price of 3.90. Yian paid the cashier $4. The cashier waited. I waited. Yian waited. Everybody behind us waited. The whole world is waiting and nothing happens...
I then realised that the cashier might be waiting for more cash as she thought it is 4.90... so I pointed to the monitor and said "3.90 what." to yian. A beam of light struck on the cashier's head. Realisation. She apologised and gave yian the change.

We then went to seek out the location of the basketball court. We followed the MRT tracks, walked to Marsiling instead of Admiralty.. so we walked back.. early warmup I guess.

So we reached the bball court and TC has already reached. So we started playing "bullet". I dont really get it too. So we'll skip that.
Nwe came and we played match. I forgot who won or who lost. But that isnt that important. Bh then came later and we played match as well.
We also played "horse" and "ABC" etc etc.

And yian invented a game, which is to dribble to each of the basketball net and score a goal each. There were 5 of them. Timing was taken.
Yian completed around 1 minute.
I didnt know bh's timing.
I completed at 1:30:09. (mins/sec/msec?)
My second attempt was better at 1 min 17 secs.
So we played bball until 6 plus?

We then went to eat dinner at a foodcourt at Causeway Point. The place is familiar.. this was when I realised I'd been here several times when I was younger. (not that I'm very old now.) We then went home respectively.


kamikorosu @ 1:02 AM





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